George
E. Hein is Professor Emeritus in the
Graduate
School of Arts and Social Sciences
and Senior Research Associate at the
Program Evaluation and Research Group
at Lesley
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Information
Biography & Education
Interests
Membership
Professional Experience
Professional Activities
— Recent Lectures —
Recent Lectures and Workshops
- November 27, 2014 • “Learning in the Museum: Theory and Practice (Constructivism)” Masaryk University – Brno, Czech Republic
- November 26, 2014 • “A Democratic Theory of Museum Education”, Muzeo50 - International Museology Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- October 11, 2014 • “A Democratic Theory of Museum Education”, EARED 6014, Museum Partnerships with School and Community”, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.
- September 15, 2014 • “The Social Responsibility of Museums: An Education Perspective”, Leadership Workshop, Historic Sotterley, Hollywood, MD.
- May 26, 2014 • “Organizational Change within Participating Institutions Related to the Citizenship Project”, MUSEUMS: Knowledge, Democracy and Transformation Conference, Helsingor, Denmark
- January 19, 2014 • “John Dewey and Albert Barnes”, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
- November 6, 2013 • “The Social Responsibility of Museums: An Education Perspective”, Keybnote address, Em nome das artes ou em nome dos públicos? Conference, Porto, Portugal.
- November 2, 2013 • “A Democratic Theory of Museum Education”, EARED 6014, Museum Partnerships with School and Community, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
- June 7, 2013 • “Reflections on Internal Activities of Citizenship (Medborgerskab) Project”, Copenhagen City Museum
- April 4, 2013 • “Progressive Museum Education: John Dewey and Albert Barnes”, Harvard Extension School, Museum Studies Program, Cambridge, MA
- March 28, 2013 • “Subjective/Objective in Research: Reclaiming the personal human aspect of social science research”, George Hein Lecture, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.
- November 13, 2012 • “John Dewey, Albert Barnes and Museums”, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
- November 6, 2012 • ”The Social Responsibility of Museums: An Education Perspective”, Bunkyo University, Chigasaki, Japan.
- November 5, 2012 • “The Dilemma of Science Museum Education:
How to Teach Visitors Who Only Want to Learn”, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan - November 4, 2012 • “Learning in the Museum: Theory and Practice”, National Science Museum, Tokyo.
- November 2, 2012 • “The Social Responsibility of Museums:
An Education Perspective”, Nanzan University, Nagoya, japan. - November 1, 2012 • “John Dewey and Museums”, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
- October 31, 2012 • “Museums in a Democratic Society: Educational Settings and Places of Learning”, International Symposium: Educational Cooperation between Museums for Humanities and Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan.
- October 8, 2012 • “John Dewey and Museums”, Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- July 8, 2012 • “Progressive Museum Education: What Does It Mean?“
Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia - April 26, 2012 • “Copenhagen Medborgerskab Project”, Seminar presentation, Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
- April 16, 2012 • “The Social Responsibility of Museums in a Democracy”, Keynote address, Young People and Museums 2012 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- March 28, 2012 • “Ph. D. Program: History, Arts and Communitarianism”, Ph. D. in Educational Studies, 25h Anniversary Celebration, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
- February 8-10, 2012 • Discussant at REACH Design Conference, Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance, Portland, ME.
- November 4-5, 2011 • Discussant at conference, Perspectives on Progressivism and the Museum, Getty Research institute, Los Angeles, CA
- October 12, 2011 • “A Personal Perspective on PERG's History: The first 22 years”
35th Anniversary Celebration, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. - September 22, 2011 • “A Democratic Theory of Museum Education”, Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria
- September 18, 2011 • “Why Museum Educators”, Keynote address, ICOM/CECA meeting, Zagreb, Croatia. Available at YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEqPCoTz79U
- September 13, 2011 • “The Political (Moral) Meaning of Constructivist Education” Seminar presentation, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
- March 21, 2011 • “Democracy and Museums: A Progressive Education Theory for Museum” Seminar presentation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- March 3–4, 2011 • Discussant, Art as a Way of Knowing Conference, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
- January 27, 2011 • “Democracy and Museums: A Progressive Education Theory for Museums” Seminar presentation, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- November 19, 2010 • Participant, Education Strategy Colloquium, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
- October 24–30, 2010 • “A Democratic Theory of Museum Education: Democracy and Museums” two lectures (São Paulo & Recife, Brazil,) International Conference, Dialogues in Education, Museums and Art
- August 2, 2010 • “Dewey’s Debt to Barnes?” Lecture, Teaching Institute in Museum Education (TIME), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- April 8–9, 2010 • “Democracy and Museums”, two lectures, Wexner Center for the Arts and Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
- March 15, 2010 • “An Introduction to Constructivist Learning Education Theory keynote address, Internationalt formidlingsseminar 2010, Nyborg, Denmark. Video available at http://vimeo.com/10259346
- February 4, 2010 • “Museums and Education for Democracy: Some historical examples (including the Smithsonian Institution?) and a discussion” Brown Bag luncheon presentation, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
- January 23, 2010 • “Aesthetics and Politics (or Thought and Action) : Dewey and Barnes”, Keynote address, 5th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference, Art, Ethics and Democracy, West Chester University. West Chester, PA
